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Danwei acquired by GAPP

A business announcement from Danwei.

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Snags in China’s new ISBN distribution system

Guangdong Province didn’t get its new system up in time for GAPP’s change to a per-book licensing model, so publishers were stymied.

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Media reform in China by the end of 2010, says GAPP

China Youth Daily: China’s government is determined to unstrap the state media from the government branches they have been affiliated with.

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Grass-roots journalism meets the modern news weekly

Blog Weekly (博客天下) is a weekly current events magazine whose contents are drawn entirely from blog and BBS posts.

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North Korean complaints get a Chinese book banned

Author Ye Yonglie has a hard time visiting North Korea and a harder time publishing a book about his trip. Then the book is banned to preserve international harmony for the Olympics.

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Expat mags: what rough beasts are slouching towards Beijing?

A new and silly entrant into Beijing’s expatriate magazine field.

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But what type of books should we read?

GAPP, the Propaganda Department, and the Office of Spiritual Civilization remind you to read a book tomorrow.

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Customs protects Fujian author from his own work

Chen Xiwo (陈希我) gets the Taiwan edition of his novella collection Book of Offenses (冒犯书) seized by customs in Fujian.

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The truth about Tibet, now in book form

Lies and the Truth (谎言与真相) is published by SDX Joint Publishing Company.

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Danwei Picks: How super are the super ministries?

The Financial Times visits Zeng Jinyan; Super Ministries! Are they worth it? Newsweek’s Melinda Liu interviewed; reporting on bad news, then and now.

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